capote

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The shape has almost the same shape as the capote for bullfighting, in beautiful pink silk, with yellow or blue in the back.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 12, 2015

"I could have presented the capote when the head passed, as others do, but I wanted to do it honestly, because the bull was honest," Celestino explains.

From Time Magazine Archive

The warm tongue sought the face of the drowsy man, and the dog, not to be put off, thrust her nose roughly into his robe, whimpering as she pulled at his capote.

From The Whelps of the Wolf by Marsh, George P.

Her attire was a peignoir of grey taffetas, lined with blue, and on her head she wore a simple capote of the same.

From Ghosts and Family Legends A Volume for Christmas by Crowe, Catherine

But mademoiselle could only answer by a sob of agony over her capote de Paris, flattened to her head like a Highland bonnet.

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James